# Want Quick Progress on Climate Change? Clean Up ‘Hyper-Polluting’ Coal Plants

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/want-quick-progress-on-climate-change-clean-up-hyper-polluting-coal-plants/
- Published: 2021-08-03T09:15:09-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo: Mount Storm Power Station in West Virginia. Photo credit: Griffin Lotz.  Article by Tim Dickinson. Rolling Stone – July 29, 2021. Just 5 percent of the globe’s power plants generate nearly 75 percent of the carbon pollution from electricity The challenge of curbing global carbon emissions can seem insurmountable. But a new study of global power-plant pollution suggests that enormous reductions could be achieved by targeting a small number of “hyper-polluting” facilities. Just 5 percent of the world’s power […] Click here to view original web page at www.rollingstone.com Curated by John Wysocki See Full Bio